Sony RDR-VX525 DVD Recorder

Pros: The process of hook up was easy as is the dubbing.

Cons: If I had to use the book as a guide I would have been lost.

The Bottom Line: This DVD/VHS Player/Recorder was a snap to hook-up, set-up and record on. The quality of the dubbed DVD's are excellent. They're straight-out duplicates of the original.

Review: My wife purchased the Sony RDR-VX525 DVD Recorder/VCR Player for me last week. I have set it up and I'm now using it. For some reason or other I'm not a natural when it comes to setting up wires from here to there. I was fortunate though, the Sony...

Pros: Fine as a Combo DVD/VHS player, but overpriced for that.

Cons: Recorded DVDs can't be played on other machines, making it essentially useless as a recorder.

Review: I copied two VHS tapes to DVDs on this machine. The DVDs play back on this machine, but every other DVD player I tried failed to play them, including another Sony DVD player which displayed a "no disc" error. I also couldn't play them on my...

Pros: Simple dubbing function.

Cons: Some DVDs skip while playing, and always at the same spot. Not on the computer.

Review: Recording older VCR moves that do not have the anti copy protection code on them, record fine. Before playing them on another DVD player or computer, the disk has to be finalized by the recording DVD player unit. A previous reviewer stated that the...

Pros: Works fine. Plays on all machines

Cons: None.

Review: This recorder works fine. The reviewer who could not play recorded dvds on other machines obviously did not "finalize" his recordings. He should have read the instructions.

Pros: Worked great for a year.

Cons: slow, NOT long-lasting

Review: After just one year this recorder stopped recording onto VHS. And two weeks after that, the DVDs would not eject. And not only that, but it ejected DVDs super slow from the beginning. It took at least 5 seconds to eject a DVD after you pushed the...